The Brooklyn Dodgers or "The Bums", as they were nicknamed, practice in Vero Beach Florida. The team trains under the supervision of manager Charlie Dressen. Russ Meyer joins the team from Philadelphia. Players at practice include Joe Black, Roy Campanella, and Gil Hodges. Children watch the practice session.
Uptown - A Portrait of the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Buildings in the area. A subway train approaches a station. People wait at the station platform. A busy market in the Bronx. Shops, displays and sign boards. Men and women on the streets and shopping in city stores and markets. A policeman in the crowd. Migrants from various countries in the commercial area with shops and stores. People read the newspaper. Many sells a newspaper with headline, "America Falling." Elderly citizens on the streets. A young African American man works as a shoe shine. The Hub area, intersection of Melrose, East 149th Street and Third Avenue. Third Avenue El before it's removal in 1973.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. The whaler at Point Barrow, the Northern most point of Alaska. An Eskimo village. Houses, tents, natives and families. Clothes dry on a clothes line. Esquimau mothers pose. A house in the background. A baby named Woodrow Wilson. The most northerly school in the world. Children sitting. Children learn at a manual training shop.
American troops in France soon after the Invasion of Europe by Allied forces in World War 2. An airstrip built by the U.S. troops at St. Mere Eglise near the coast. U.S. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter taxis on the strip. Soldiers bring 500 lb bomb on jeep. They fix the bomb under the plane wing. Two P-47s raise dust as they taxi and take off laden with the heavy bombs. A P-38 Lightning fighter taxis and takes off. The planes fly over hills. Footage switches to black and white, and various aircraft crash and combat scenes are shown. In Spokane Washington at an air show demonstration, a formation of three A-25 aircraft is seen and then two of the A-25s collide in mid-air and breakup. One A-25 impacts and explodes and another crashes and explodes. Fire and smoke at the crash site. Scene transitions to a variety of highly dramatic gun camera footage shots from World War 2. German railroad train is strafed. German planes are hit and downed by American aircraft, as captured by automatic combat cameras on the aircraft. Various German aircraft exploding, in flames and falling to the ground, with some heading straight for Allied aircraft before being shot out of the sky.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
A U.S. Army Signal Corps training film on Rules for controlling German prisoners of war in World War 2. International conference 1929 in Geneva, Switzerland. Various officers and dignitaries in the conference where the Geneva Convention was agreed-upon by many nations. Image of Field Manual 27-10 states the Rules of Land Warfare based on the Geneva Conventions and describes standard procedures for handling Prisoners of War. Scene of 20,000 Prisoners of War who surrender under Nazi Major General Eric Elster at Loire, France September 16, 1944 to the United States 3rd Army, 83rd Division, under General Macon. General Elster salutes General Macon, then approaches the microphones in the middle of a roadway and delivers a surrender speech. General Macon then replies accepting the surrender on behalf of General Simpson. General Macon states that the men will be treated according to the rules made during the conference in Geneva.
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